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prolific in fibrous roots, and less so in shoots and leaves, they may be kept 
in the nursery, by frequent transplanting, till they attain a much larger size. 
The most convenient time for planting them where they are finally to remain 
is after they have been two years in the seed-bed, and one year transplanted ; 
and the operation should never be performed but in mild weather, and when 
the air is somewhat moist. 
£2. 4. orrenTALIs Tourn. The Oriental Spruce Fir. 
Identification. Tourn. Cor., 41 
Synonymes. Pinus orientalis Lin. Sp. Pl.1421., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 1. t. 39. ; Picea orientalis Link, 
and Steven in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mos. 1833. 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1, t. 39.; and our figs. 1924. and 1925. 
Spec. Char., $c. Leaves solitary, sub-quadrangular. Cones cylindrical ; scales 
broader than long, rhomboid ovate, rounded at the apex, sub-entire. (Steven. ) 
Leaves half as long as those of A’bies excélsa, and, like them, quadrangular, 
acute, but not pungent ; neither are they two rowed, as Tournefort states, 
but cover the branches on all sides, as in 
the common spruce. Cones 3in. long, 
subcylindrical; scales 
more laxly imbri- 
cated as the seeds 
ripen, inferior broad- 
ly rounded, superior 
somewhat acute. A 
lofty tree. Tauria 
and Caucasus, on the 
loftiest mountains of 
Imeretia, and fre- 1924. a. orientalis. 
quent in Upper Mingrelia, especially in the 
neighbourhood of churches, and forming 
1925. A. orientalis. 
whole forests between Guriel and the 
Adshar mountains. (Gard. Mag., 1839, 
p- 227.) 
Described by Lambert, after Tournefort, and 
from dried specimens; but cones with fertile 
seeds do not appear to have been introduced 
till 21837. Of late many plants have been 
raised in Knight’s Exotic Nursery, from seeds 
received from Mingrelia and the neighbourhood 
of Teflis. 
2 3, A. osova'ta D. Don MS. The obovate- 
leaved Spruce Fir. 
Synonyme. Picea obovata Led. Icon. Pl. Fl. Ross. t. 500. 
Engravings. Our fig. 1926. and 1927. from Ledebour. 
Spec. Char., $e: Leaves arranged in many 
series, curved upwards. Cones erect, cylindri- 
cal. Scales abruptly dilated from the cuneate 
base into a quadrangular lamina, broader 
towards the point. Bracteas somewhat 
quadrangular, mucronate, not half re ae 1926. A. obovata. 
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